Video: Secretary Clinton Launches 100 Women Initiative

On March 7, Sec. Clinton Launched the State Department’s “100 Women Inititative: Empowering Women and Girls Through International Exchanges.” The 100 Women Initiative is “a year-long series of events bringing 100 women leaders from 92 countries to the United States. This effort features International Visitor Leadership Program exchanges that highlight key foreign policy issues directly affecting women and girls worldwide. Secretary Clinton said:

“…This is especially important for me because I believe strongly that every person — man and woman, boy and girl — has a God-given right to participate and to go as far as his or her hard work and talents will take them.”